Debra Cash
No amount of postmodern theory can paper over the fact that a half-baked cake, even one made with tasty ingredients, fails to satisfy.
With a Stephen Sondheim show, it’s all in the casting, and Emmanuel Music’s casting was a mixed bag.
John Tiffany’s Tony-winning direction of “Once,” restaged for the current tour, is a miracle of judicious rhythmic choices and deft transitions.
“Lon Chaney is just a master,” says Roger Miller of The Alloy Orchestra, “and the film ‘He Who Gets Slapped’ has everything that he’s great at.”
All was well — at moments, thrilling — until the credits rolled. Then the Regal did what it always did: it launched its terrible muzak.
Observers have often commented that NEA money goes disproportionately to large cultural institutions, and that continues to be true, but those investments are dispersed among disciplines and geographies.
Mona Rice, who performed Denishawn and who founded the dance department at the Cushing Academy as well as her own studio in Ashburnham, MA, died in Boston on November 26 at the age of 82.
This, my friends, is what 80 looks like.
Red Grooms specializes in high art cartooning with a nod to ideas about time, personality, and the formation of coteries that bear close investigation, or as curator Lisa Hodermarsky’s notes, invite visitors to belly up to the bar.
Director Jon M. Chu enlisted songwriter/performer Todrick Hall and choreographers Jamal Sims and Christopher Scott to remix the in-flight safety lecture.
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